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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

…cool new year’s facts

ancient history!the first ever recorded new year was celebrated
4,000 years ago by the ancient babylonians.

drivers beware!! the two biggest days of
the year for car theft are new year's eve and new year's day!more vehicles are stolen on new year’s day than any other
holiday!

go red! in italy, people wear red underwear on new year’s day to bring
good luck all year long.

lucky vs yucky foods!on new
years day eat black eyed peas, ham and cabbage. they’ll bring you good luck. don’t
eat lobster ‘cause they move backwards or chicken ‘cause they scratch backward
and eating them will cause reverse and that's bad luck.

kiss me!…ack!according to old english and german forklore, the first person
you come across and how you greet him/her in the new year will set the tone for
the next 12 months. so…be sure to give him/her/it a HUGE HUG and a BIG
SMOOCHEROO!! and, for couples…if you don’t lock lips at midnight your
relationship might not be so bright the rest of the year. ugh!

numero uno!!the first place on earth to ring in the start
of 2015 is the island of kiritimati (aka christmas island) in the pacific.
“kukurei boou rikiri!” that’s happy new year in gilbertese, the language of the
island.

waaaa it’s past my bedtime! using a baby to signify the new year began in
ancient greece around 600 B.C.

watch it!the most-watched
new year's eve broadcast in the world is "dick clark's new year's rockin'
eve." it started in 1972 with just a couple cameras and a skeleton crew and
still keeps on rocking to this day.

crystal ball! in 1907 (3 years after the first times
square new year’s celebration) fireworks were banned and instead, officials
lowered a 700 pound iron and wood ball from a flagpole. today’s ball weighs
11,875 pounds, has 32, 256 led lights and 2,688 crystals.

keep your eye on the ball!over one billion people worldwide watch the
times square ball drop every year.

scare 'em away! noise making and fireworks on new year's eve is believed to have originated in ancient times when noise and fire were
thought to dispel evil spirits and bring good luck.

the BIG BANG! dubai holds the record for the world’s largest ever new year’s fireworks
display. 479,651 shells were fired off in just six minutes at a rate of almost
80k shells per minute and 1,332 fireworks per second. the world record was
broken within the first minute.

you can doit! well…maybe not.the most popular new
year’s resolution is to lose weight.sadly,
by march, or even before, most everyone has given up. UGH!

Happy New Year to you too! I am a bit late to the party, but still wishing you well for 2015.:) You always make me smile. Thank you for enlightening us on these interesting and fun facts. I learned some things today!